The reason I see this as bad is because Cruise Chaser is assets from the game, made by the dev team.

A long held stance for cash shops enthusiasts is, "Stuff made for the cash shop is made by the cash shop teams, so it doesn't affect development time, and the dev team is not involved!"

Well, would you look at that. The dev team is involved. Granted, it's an old raid monster, but really, it has an 8 man rideable animation which actually has all 8 people ride it in its fight. It actually repositions them, so it already had all of the data to be a mount.

So what other really cool rideable bosses or monsters are they going to throw behind a $30 pay wall in the future? How much more content in the future is going to simultaneously be in the game while also being planned out to be in the cash shop? How much more past content is going to suddenly become available now, but only within the confines of the cash shop purchase?

I ask this as someone who has made purchases from the cash shop when I really couldn't resist having something, because I knew they would never add it in otherwise. I sought solace in that claim that the dev team wouldn't be involved in making things for the cash shop, but here we are.

It sets a bad precedent.